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Click consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Clicks are inherently stop-like or affricate-like depending on their place of articulation: clicks involving an alveolar or palatal closure are acoustically like plain stops, while bilabial, dental and lateral ones sound more like affricates. |
 | | Clicks also occur in Sandawe and Hadza, two languages in Tanzania (believed by some to be distant branches of Khoisan), Sesotho, spoken in South Africa and Lesotho, and in Dahalo, a South Cushitic language spoken in Kenya. |
 | | The five clicks specified in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are the bilabial click ʘ, the dental click ǀ, the alveolar lateral click ǁ, the palatal click ǂ, and the postalveolar click ǃ. |
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